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Mottron, Laurent; Dawson, Michelle; Soulieres, Isabelle; Hubert, Benedicte; Burack, Jake – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2006
We propose an "Enhanced Perceptual Functioning" model encompassing the main differences between autistic and non-autistic social and non-social perceptual processing: locally oriented visual and auditory perception, enhanced low-level discrimination, use of a more posterior network in "complex" visual tasks, enhanced perception…
Descriptors: Autism, Visual Perception, Models, Auditory Perception
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Haddon, J. E.; Killcross, A. S. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2005
There is much debate as to the extent and nature of functional specialization within the different subregions of the prefrontal cortex. The current study was undertaken to investigate the effect of damage to medial prefrontal cortex subregions in the rat. Rats were trained on two biconditional discrimination tasks, one auditory and one visual, in…
Descriptors: Brain, Animals, Cues, Specialization